Los Angeles-based, Canadian-born composer, producer, songwriter, and singer Casey MQ shares his new single “Grey Gardens.” The track is a stunning ballad that is delivered alongside a conceptualized and animated video by Saradibiza with direction from Harry Cepka portraying Casey in a mysterious dream surrounding a memory castle seemingly from another universe.
“Grey Gardens” follows the recently shared singles “Me, I Think I Found It” and “The Make Believe” featuring Oklou, all of which provide a window into what can be found on Casey’s forthcoming album Later that day, the day before, the day before that due June 7th via Ghostly International.
Speaking about “Grey Gardens,” Casey shares, “Remembrance can return in the most mysterious ways. ‘Grey Gardens’ is, for me, the album’s manifesto —an expression of how we continually meet our forgetting.”
Later that day, the day before, or the day before that came about as Casey MQ spiraled into unconscious and subconscious-led writing sessions at the piano. With the new album he questions what is true entirely, understanding our mind’s tendency to bend and project onto pictures of the past. Across vivid, baroque pop balladry, Casey MQ reorients his recording project and point of view under the notion that memories are malleable. All the joy, pain, love, and loss housed within remembrance is open to interpretation and deconstruction, which he does deftly, with curiosity and complete artistic freedom.
“It’s a memory album,” Casey puts it simply, winding up for the deeper unpacking, “and it might be a breakup album, too…there are more questions than answers.” Engaging his dreams and sitting with sheet music at his newly acquired piano, he looked to new and old inspirations including the works of Claude Debussy, Joni Mitchell, and Joe Hisaishi’s beloved Studio Ghibli film scores. “Since I was young, I always wanted to write a piano album.” On Later that day…, Casey combines his electronica expertise with his love for piano compositions to create an atmosphere, giving Casey’s more spacious, minimal arrangements a distinct luster and sheen. The textures and tones shift from song to song as if mirroring the way our minds constantly recontextualize, remember, and forget.
Casey is known for his 2020 breakthrough album babycasey, which gave voice to songs seen through the lens of childhood, various film score work and collaborations with artists such as Oklou (who returns here), Eartheater, and Vagabon. His gifts as a producer and songwriter are rooted in textural world-building and the excavation of personal truth. babycasey includes the popular songs “Candyboy” and “Walls Could Talk.” Last year, Casey also teamed up with Cecile Believe for the track “I Got a Bike.”
Later that day, the day before, or the day before that
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